Most people use retirement to take their foot off the gas and relax. Former Rio Rancho Mayor Pat D’Arco, who died Jan. 13, 2012, was not one of those people.
More than 100 years ago there was a spot east of Albuquerque, at the base of the Sandia Mountains, where groups of people gathered on a regular basis to share
odd. with the investigation seeming to stall, detective winston called the local paper, the albuquerque journal, asking if they d filed a story on the cold case. maybe the attention would shake loose some leads. jeff proctor, a reporter for the paper. police were finally willing to say, publicly, that they believe this may have been a homicide. it s no secret that in any homicide investigation, the spouses always the first to be questioned. before the detective had a chance to reach out to allen, she was calling him complaining about the article. she said, where did you get this information? she was upset that it portrayed that he was just an innocent man, a father that had disappeared. the article did it implicate you? oh, yes it did. i mean, i read it. it doesn t lay the blame at